Re: Does anybody do MIDI splitting?

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Morley <thomasmorley65@gmail.com> writes:

> Am Mo., 18. Okt. 2021 um 16:14 Uhr schrieb David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> currently entering drum scores for the ensemble I am playing in (getting
>> a note-savvy living drummer for regular practice is comparatively
>> challenging) and I frequently have the situation that there are large
>> pauses in drum play.  At that point in time, I need to cut the MIDI
>> file, take everything up to the last note before the pause into one file
>> and start the next file on beat 1 (sometimes 3) leading to the next note
>> (interestingly, if the next note is on beat 2 or 4 or similar, you still
>> need to start on 1 or 3 since otherwise the "drummer" fails to convey
>> right away the tempo they as opposed to everyone else is aiming for).
>>
>> It's cumbersome writing separate variables and scores manually; it would
>> be nicer to just drop the cutting points in the middle of the score
>> (like in the separate time track) and then some automated thing would
>> slice the score into separate scores for MIDI.
>>
>> Has anybody done anything like that already?
>>
>> --
>> David Kastrup
>>
>
> Years ago I made
> https://archiv.lilypondforum.de/index.php/topic,2012.msg12471.html#msg12471
> Not exactly what you want, maybe a starting point...

A bit cumbersome to adapt to my use case.  I'll probably try my luck
running the whole score through repeatedly while fiddling with
skipTypesetting such that it is #f while generating segment $x just
between \segmentStart $x and \segmentEnd $x .  Maybe that's all it
takes.  Or not.

-- 
David Kastrup